Guantanamo is the face of America under Bush. It has changed how we are perceived in the world and it has eroded our moral authority. We should be grateful to the 3 men who sacrificed their lives in the struggle against barbarity and cynicism.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13587.htm

Rep. John Murtha introduced America to the word “redeployment” during his press conference last November, when he spoke about a bill he authored that was designed to prevent the military he loves from becoming “a broken force,” to use General Helmly’s words. Rep. Murtha has never claimed that his redeployment bill was peace-oriented, and if you examine it closely, you can see that its purpose is to change the arc of the war rather than end it.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13585.htm

John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America’s ambassador to the UN by even the compliant and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13588.htm

The ineffable anguish in the image of a girl running on a beach where her family lay in pieces on the sand, was shown again and again and again on Al Jazeera, but it passed swiftly from Israeli television screenswww.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=725483

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Video

Death On A Gaza Beach:

A 7 year old Palestinian girl screams in horror as she watches her dead parents and other family members being removed from the beach:

Hamas is determined that Palestinian recognition of Israel will not come about without Israel’s recognition of Palestinian national rights, and that only an end to the occupation and Israel’s acceptance of the principle that no changes in the pre-1967 borders can occur without Palestinian agreement (a principle enshrined in the road map that Israel pretends to have accepted) will constitute such recognition.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13583.htm

THE intercepted top-secret fax contained information that America never wanted the world to know – that the US was holding war-on-terror captives at clandestine “black site” prisons in eastern Europe.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13577.htm

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Nearly 40 “Taliban” believed killed in Afghanistan:

Major strikes by Afghan and coalition troops killed up to 37 Taliban fighters, including a man believed to be related to the movement’s leader, the military said.www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=128148

Unable to offer protection to vulnerable villagers against intimidation by Taleban fighters, the Afghan government says it is considering forming tribal militias to guard the places security forces can’t reach.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=146659

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‘Killing themselves was unnecessary. But it certainly is a good PR move’ :

This piece is a summary of five most commonly deployed crisis management propaganda tactics which the State and Media combine that we can expect to see in relation to the Haditha Massacre. Listed in a loose chronological order of their deployment, the tactics are: Delay, Distract, Discredit, Spotlight and Scapegoat. Each of the five public relations campaigns will here be discussed in the context of the Haditha Massacre.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13563.htm

Insurgents set a fire in a vegetable market to lure British soldiers into a gunbattle Sunday that left five civilians dead and more than a dozen hurt by the crossfire, Iraqi police said.tinyurl.com/s23m7

U.S. and Iraqi forces cordoned off the city Saturday and were asking civilians to evacuate, residents and Iraqi officials said. Airstrikes on several residential areas picked up, and troops used loudspeakers to warn civilians of a fierce impending attack, Ramadi police Capt. Tahseen Aldulaimi said.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003054003_ramadi11.html

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How Iraq’s ghost of death was cornered:

“We saw the bodies of two women that had been flung away from the blast. Both were dead. Another body was totally destroyed and in pieces, and then we heard a moan coming from another part of the house.”www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13574.htm

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Baghdad Burning: Iraqi Girl Blog:

Zarqawi…

The timing is extremely suspicious: just when people were getting really fed up with the useless Iraqi government, Zarqawi is killed and Maliki is hailed the victorious leader of the occupied world! (And no- Iraqis aren’t celebrating in the streets- worries over electricity, water, death squads, tests, corpses and extremists in high places prevail right now.)tinyurl.com/hwc7q

Contrary to erroneous reports promoted by the US government, Zarqawi’s so-called ‘Al Qaeda in Iraq’ was not really a part of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda movement, and he was not the leader of the anti-US resistance in Iraq.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13576.htm

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Jason Miller: Bon Appétit, America :

Throughout Bush’s tenure in the White House, our Commander in Chef and his staff of gourmets have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of propagandistic delights for the psyches of those who still cling to the myth of America’s innate superiority.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13565.htm

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Scott Ritter: Blame for Haditha Lies at Bush’s Feet:

The scope and scale of our crimes, as manifested in Iraq and elsewhere, are mind-boggling. The indifference of the American people is mind numbing. And the wrath of history, which will judge all of us harshly, has yet to be felt.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13567.htm

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Storms of Horror in a Tormented Land :

Report after report of horrific atrocities — long held back by a levee of lies, fear, obfuscation and the natural confusion of war — has broken through, flooding the imperial capital with the reeking, corpse-filled backwash of the vast criminal folly committed by its grubby little Caesar.tinyurl.com/mm2jt

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Military attempts to stop Lt. Watada from speaking against illegal war:

Lt. Watada confirmed, “I have a legal and ethical obligation to speak out against, and refuse to fight, this patently illegal war in Iraq. This has not changed.”tinyurl.com/ogefp

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Iraq war bill deletes US military base prohibition:

Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and congressional aides said on Friday.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13569.htm

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House Aid Package Cuts Iraq, Afghan Funds :

The House voted Friday to spend $21.3 billion on foreign aid but cut money President Bush wanted for Iraq, Afghanistan and a program that rewards countries moving toward democracy and good government.tinyurl.com/rf5kr

This was entirely predictable,’ Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch told BBC News 24. ‘There are people there [in Guantanamo] who are increasingly despairing … because they are being held lawlessly, there’s no end in sight.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13562.htm

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Alfred W McCoy: The Outcast of Camp Echo:

The Punishment of David Hicks: Stripped of all rights as an “unlawful combatant”, isolated inside a concrete cell, abandoned by his homeland and pushed to the brink of suicide, David Hicks has somehow managed to defy the world’s most powerful person, George W Bushwww.informationclearinghouse.info/article13568.htm

I often have to ask myself why we, as Americans, so blindly follow our leaders down this path of violent destruction, and it has always been so. From the genocide and virtual extinction of our native population to dehumanizing black people so that they could be used as human chattel and still be oppressed, even today, to still be the only so-called “civilized nation” that executes people.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13570.htm

Living in the US under a rogue administration bent on world conquest and dominance, I can easily understand what Greg might have had in mind by his title. But as he explained, he chose it from his late teacher Allen Ginsberg who wrote: “The soul should not die ungodly in an armed madhouse.”www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13571.htm

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Iran to make nuclear counter-offer:

The counter-offer may be a variation of the proposal made by Europe, the US, China and Russia or could be an entirely new package, the state-run Irna news agency quoted Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, as saying on Saturday.tinyurl.com/qugf7

“Don’t leave me alone.” – With those parting words, and amid a sea of tears from thousands of mourners, 7-year-old Huda Ghalya bade farewell on Saturday to her mother, father and three siblings killed when a sunny day on the beach turned into the child’s darkest day.today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L1067283

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President Abbas Describes Israel’s Massacres:

“Undoubtedly what happened in Gaza today are bloody pogroms against safe civilians,” said President Abbas in a statement to WAFA “Israeli is committing the biggest crimes of termination against the Palestinian people.”tinyurl.com/eh3yr

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US supports Israel killing :

Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Az Zahar condemned the US support of Israel killing an entire family yesterday. He described the US position as one of an “accomplice to the crimes,” as the Americans do foot the bill and also give their moral support to such brutality.www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week2/100606/report2.htm

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Paralyzed for life :

The tangle of tubes and the artificial respirator attached directly to her windpipe cannot hide her beauty. A little 3-year-old girl lying in the pediatric intensive care unit at Sheba Medical Center, Maria Aman’s sad, brown almond eyes are wide open, her lips murmur in a whisper: “Food, I want to eat,” but all her limbs are paralyzed, forever.www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/725208.html

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Hamas says will renew attacks on Israel:

The militant group Hamas, which has largely abided by a truce for more than a year, said on Friday it was renewing attacks on Israel following Israeli strikes that were reported to have killed 10 Palestinian civilians.www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09560621.htm

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Jailed Hamas men retract support of prisoners’ plan :

The Hamas prisoner who helped draft a proposal that would implicitly recognize Israel withdrew his name from the document Sunday on behalf of all Hamas prisoners, deepening Palestinian divisions ahead of a referendum on the plan.www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/725495.html

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Israel braces for new “terror” war:

The IDF report outlines the army’s general assessment for the next five years. It lists Iran’s nuclear program as the top danger to Israel, followed by the threat of a renewed conflict with the Palestinians. The third level of threat is all-out war.tinyurl.com/ke7ab

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Israel’s ‘Right’ to Exist : A question of legitimacy :

The basic fact is Israel was created in violation of international law and remains so. Israel’s illegitimacy is the point that Hamas asserts and which the world is starving and economically boycotting the Palestinians to force them to reject — by demanding they recognize Israel’s right to exist.tinyurl.com/fqy6e

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Constitutional chauvinism:

Arab citizens have no right to a family life in their homeland, if this means granting legal status to their partners in Israel. The reason is that this changes the numerical ratio between Arabs and Jews, thus changing the status quo in Israel.www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/724872.html

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US approves annual aid to Israel :

House of Representatives approves allocation of USD 2.46 billion to Israel, the largest sum received by any country;tinyurl.com/lul3j

Laws passed in wake of Nuremberg trials now being pressed in Europe against Israeli generals.tinyurl.com/jed2e

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Dahlan vows to decimate Hamas:

Former Gaza strongman Mohamed Dahlan said during a closed meeting held recently in Gaza that he would “rough up and humiliate” Fatah members or supporters who might be tempted to join the Hamas-led Palestinian government.weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/re82.htm

Pakistan’s Army today raised the number of militants killed in a raid on a training camp a day earlier to more then 30, including Arabs, Uzbeks and local militants who were also involved in attacks inside Afghanistan.www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=301589&sid=SAS

Indonesia’s defense minister warned the Bush administration Tuesday that its approach for fighting terrorism is perceived as overbearing and that the United States should be sensitive to local concerns.tinyurl.com/fcqtc

The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, had demanded Kofi Annan should repudiate Mark Malloch Brown’s remarks.tinyurl.com/em3z5

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China’s thirst for oil rattles old order:

The shifting pattern of energy consumption is rattling Washington and aggravating an already intense rivalry with neighboring Japan over access to oil and gas supplies, adding to tensions in an already volatile region.tinyurl.com/eb5fh

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Video

Oil: The Party’s Over:

Richard Heinberg, author of “The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies” and “Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World,” and professor at New College of California, discusses the end of oil as the fuel of industrial societies.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13572.htm

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China-Japan showdown is coming:

recent Pentagon report on China’s growing military power suggests the US is worried that Beijing is gearing up not only to threaten Taiwan but also to confront other US allies in the region, Japan being the most prominent among them.tinyurl.com/khdko

In Northern California’s Humboldt County, voters decided by a 55-45 margin that corporations do not have the same rights — based on the supposed “personhood” of the combines — as citizens when it comes to participating in local political campaigns.www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=89125

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Economic Fascism:

A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called “fascism” but “planned capitalism.” The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym “industrial policy” is as popular as ever.www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html

“The diaspora issue is one of my biggest current concerns,” he said. “Globalisation makes assimilation seem redundant and old-fashioned . . . [the process] acts as a sort of reverse colonisation, where groups of people are self-contained, going back and forth between their countries, exploiting sophisticated networks and using instant communication on phones and the internet.”www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2220267,00.html

So, it’s another “mission accomplished”. The man immortalised by the Americans as the most dangerous terrorist since the last most dangerous terrorist, is killed – by the Americans. A Jordanian corner-boy who could not even lock and load a machine gun is blown up by the US Air Force – and Messrs Bush and Blair see fit to boast of his demise. To this have our leaders descended. And how short are our memories.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13556.htm

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Dissecting the Zargawi Spectacle

By Danny Schechter

What a coup! What a show! And what an event for Iraqi “leaders” to show-off with terms like he has been “eliminated.” Within hours, the spinmeisters were claiming a “major victory” and pronouncing another “turning point.”www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13557.htm

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Impunity

By Mike Whitney

George Bush is right; Iraq is “the central battlefield in the global war on terror”. Regrettably, it is United States that is the main sponsor and supporter of that terror in the form of American-trained death squads. Death squad activity in Iraq now accounts for more than 1,000 casualties per month. The Baghdad morgue has become a conveyor-belt for American-generated carnage.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13558.htm

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War Criminal Nation

By Paul Craig Roberts

Our elected “representatives” are so in thrall to the powerful military-industrial complex that no amount of American shame, pariah status and military defeat can shut off the flow of taxpayers’ funds to the merchants of death.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13554.htm

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Troop Cuts in Iraq Won’t Meet Goal This Year, Officials Say:

Senior administration and military officials now acknowledge that there is little chance the United States can reach the milestone of reducing American troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by December, a goal that earlier in the year had seemed within reach.fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt6_09_06.htm

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For the women of Iraq, the war is just beginning :

Across Iraq, a bloody and relentless oppression of women has taken hold. Many women had their heads shaved for refusing to wear a scarf or have been stoned in the street for wearing make-up. Others have been kidnapped and murdered for crimes that are being labelled simply as “inappropriate behaviour”.news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article717570.ece

George Galoway on Al-Zzarqawi and the war crimes commited by Bush and Blairtinyurl.com/qbqzd

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Was Al-Zarqawi death used as cover for the release of the US State Dept Human Trafficking Report 2006?

The report admits that slave labor has been used by US Contractors and Sub-contractors in Iraq… indentured servitude paid for with US Tax dollars.www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/

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U.S. taxpayers financed human trafficking, report says:

A State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses.tinyurl.com/zlp7n

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Families of Haditha victims may have been offered money:

Iraqi charges that the Marines offered hush money have also figured in a separate investigation of the shooting death of a disabled Iraqi man in the Baghdad suburb of Hamdaniyah on April 26.www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14767820.htm

Afghan troops killed 13 “suspected Taleban” rebels including two Pakistani nationals on Friday in an operation in southern Afghanistan, a commander said.tinyurl.com/rdew8

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9 killed in Afghan violence, officials say :

Violence killed nine people around Afghanistan, including a regional security director and two Afghan aid workers, officials said Friday.tinyurl.com/m3zb8

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Kabul should have restored to it the dignity lost over the past 25 years :

We declare war. We bomb. We conquer. We then pretend to rebuild. But there is no rebuilding, just collateral damage. In Belgrade, Baghdad and Kabul, the last three cities assaulted by Britain in war, millions may be spent on aid, but buildings are left as piles of rubble.www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1793476,00.html

Russia sent messages to Israel through US intermediaries recently, voicing opposition to a possible military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Jerusalem Post has learned.tinyurl.com/ohq8j

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‘Pressure on Tehran about oil not weapons’ :

Western pressure on Iran is driven not by concerns about weapons of mass destruction but by interest in the country’s oil reserves, a senior Iranian energy official said, AFP reported.tinyurl.com/nhwxm

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Hans Blix: Don’t Forget Those Other 27,000 Nukes :

Almost all the talk these days is about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to states like Iran and North Korea, or to terrorists. Foreign ministers meet again and again, concerned that Iran has enriched a few milligrams of uranium to a 4 percent level.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13551.htm

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire killed at least nine Palestinians on Friday, including six people on a crowded Gaza beach, Palestinian medics said.tinyurl.com/qj8ub

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Israel Kills Palestinian Family Including 3 Children:

The attack destroyed a tent and scattered body parts along the beach. A crowd flocked to the area, screaming and running around in confusion. One tearful man held the limp body of what appeared to be a girl or young woman.www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13223303/

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With a little help from the outside :

Israel cannot claim the boycott weapon is illegitimate. It makes extensive use of this weapon itself, and its victims are suffering under severe conditions of deprivation, from Rafah to Jenin.www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/722364.html

The US has cancelled talks in which ministers had been expected to approve urgent measures leading to the payment of Palestinian salaries, including those of the security forces, which were frozen after a Hamas government came to power.news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article753710.ece

Already there are killing machines operating by remote control. Soon the machines will be able to kill on their own initiative. A new warfare is on its way.www.newstatesman.com/200606120018

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Canada: Suspects seem strictly second-rate?:

If these guys are terrorists, they aren’t very good ones. At least that seems to be the picture that is slowly emerging of the 17 men and boys charged this week under Canada’s anti-terror laws.tinyurl.com/mnkaj

For the smug, comfortable, well-off Americans, it doesn’t seem to matter how long the war in Iraq goes on – as long as the agony is endured by others. If the network coverage gets too grim, viewers can always switch to the E! channel (one hand on the remote, the other burrowing into a bag of chips) to follow the hilarious antics of Paris, Britney, Brangelina et al.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13539.htm

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Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War

By Jerry Ghinelli

Fresh and well-rested after their year-long vacation, our valiant crusaders—oil executives by day, freedom fighters by night—return to the world stage once again as Batman and Robin: The Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13541.htm

Zarqawi, was head of an organization that quite fortuitously dubbed itself “Al Qaeda in Iraq” just around the time that the Bush Administration began changing its pretext for the conquest from “eliminating Iraq’s [non-existent] weapons of mass destruction” to “fighting terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”tinyurl.com/ebt26

The poll, found that 59 percent of adults say the United States made a mistake in going to war in Iraq – the highest level yet in AP-Ipsos polling.tinyurl.com/hy39x

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Army Lieutenant Becomes First Commissioned Officer to Refuse Deployment to Iraq:

Interview: Audio and transcript: On Wednesday U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren Watada announced his intention to disobey what he says are illegal orders to deploy to Iraq. We speak with 1st Lieutenant Watada and his lawyer, Legrand Jones.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13538.htm

A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf while talking to Radio Tehran, said that Taliban shot down the fighter plane in Deh Chopan district of Zabul province. He however stated that so far there are no reports about casualties.www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=98264

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War pimp alert:

Jewish leader in Germany calls Ahmadinejad ‘second Hitler’ :

The newly elected leader of Germany’s main Jewish organization said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a “second Hitler” who should not be allowed to attend the World Cup, according to comments published Thursday.www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/724655.html

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War pimp alert:

Pro-Israel group pushes tough U.S. policy on Iran:

As the Bush administration pursues sensitive diplomacy, the influential U.S. pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has sent out a fundraising letter seeking support for a tough U.S. line against Iran’s nuclear program.tinyurl.com/k6yhz

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran was ready to discuss “mutual concerns” over his country’s nuclear program, but he refused to first suspend uranium enrichment.www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=86642

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold a referendum on a statehood proposal that implicitly recognizes Israel on July 31, after Hamas rejected the plan, officials said on Thursday.tinyurl.com/grnl7

Amnesty International has expressed grave concerns over the United States’ targeting and killings of civilians inside Pakistan and the arrest, detention and disappearance of Pakistanis by their own government in the name of war on terror.tinyurl.com/hrht4

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Europe helped CIA run secret prisons: Probe:

“It is now clear — although we are still far from having established the whole truth — that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities,” said Marty.tinyurl.com/zyrjt

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From logistics to turning a blind eye: Europe’s role in terror abductions:

The full extent of European collusion with the CIA during operations to abduct terrorism suspects and fly them to countries where they may be tortured is laid bare today by the continent’s most authoritative human rights body.www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329498686-110878,00.html

The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations was last night accused of making “a very, very grave mistake” after calling the Bush administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-UN frenzy in middle America.www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1792679,00.html

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US infuriated by UN official’s speech :

The United States demanded Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan repudiate a speech in which his No. 2 official broke with tradition and accused the United States of undermining the United Nations.tinyurl.com/hb48m

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Scepticism expressed over Canadian terrorist plot:

The Canadian terrorist conspiracy should be “treated with the utmost caution and a large degree of scepticism”tinyurl.com/gm83d

The scariest goddamn film you’ll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes ‘Fahrenheit 9/11' look like ‘Bambi.’ After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America — and about what it means to be an American — will be forever shattered.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13534.htm

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Russian Energy Company Eyes Gas Deal :

Russia’s state-controlled natural gas company Gazprom is considering investing around US$2 billion (euro1.56 billion) in Bolivia’s recently nationalized gas industry, the president of Bolivia’s state energy company Wednesday.www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3947796.html

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful “black propaganda” campaign with links to the White House.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13530.htm

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The Last Taboo

By John Pilger

‘It’s painful to acknowledge, but it really is quite simple,’ he said. ‘There is no basic moral difference between the soldier at the checkpoint who prevents a woman who is having a baby from going through, causing her to lose the baby, and the man who killed my daughter. And just as my daughter was a victim [of the occupation], so was he.’www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13529.htm

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1927 Again

By Greg Palast.

Huey Long was our Hugo Chávez, and he laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education, public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, Social Security old age pensions, veterans’ benefits, regulation of the big utility holding companies, an end to what he called, “rich men’s wars,” and an end to the financial royalism of the One Percent.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13531.htm

Nearly 1,400 Iraqi civilians were murdered in targeted killings last month in Baghdad alone, and many more died in indiscriminate bomb blasts, making May the bloodiest month in the capital since the war began, Iraq’s health ministry said yesterday.www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1791928,00.html

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US troops accused of new murders in Iraq :

In the latest in a string of allegations against US forces, Juburi said 29 Iraqis were killed in May in separate incidents in the towns of Latifiyah and Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, and in the capital itselfwww.informationclearinghouse.info/article13560.htm

A US outfit, Blackwater, has set up shop at the Subic Freeport and is now recruiting active and retired soldiers, preferably combat veterans, to help fight America’s war against Iraq.www.malaya.com.ph/jun08/edit.htm

In January, Watada told his commanders that he believed that the war was unlawful, and therefore, so were his deployment orders. He did not, however, consider himself a conscientious objector, since he was willing to fight in wars that were justified, legal and in defense of the nation.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13532.htm

The Iraqis are a fierce people. No elf is going to sprinkle fairy dust on them and make them fall in love with us. Why should they? We destroyed their country and caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children just with the sanctions, not counting the thousands we’ve killed since then.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13526.htm

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U.S./UK Bases In Iraq:

“It is important to remember, at this point, that the UN Security Council “mandate” for the occupation troops in Iraq ended by the end of 2005. Apart from ex-prime minister Jafari’s “invitation”, they do not have any “legal” cover to stay.”tinyurl.com/zrf9p

Twenty-five suspected Taliban were killed in a five-day sweep of a known rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan while five more were killed in a skirmish Wednesday, military officials said.www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/17712

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2 U.S., 3 Afghan soldiers killed:

The U.S.-led coalition confirmed today that two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.tinyurl.com/fkms9

The recent boycott resolutions of CUPE and NATFHE against Israel’s Apartheid predictably awakened Israel’s willing apologists, initiating a high pitched chorus of condemnation and self pity across the Western media, not to mention the blogospherewww.dissidentvoice.org/June06/Ash06.htm

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The Israeli Boycott of Palestinian Education:

In the flurry of letters and comments against the boycott of Israeli academics who, according to Natfhe, are complicit through their work or silence, in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the reality facing the other side of the coin, that of Palestinian academics, researchers and educational institutions, has been ignored.www.counterpunch.org/ribeiro06072006.html

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New U.S. rules allow force-feeding at Guantanamo:

The U.S. military issued medical guidelines Tuesday for the treatment of prisoners, formally directing doctors at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere to force-feed hunger strikers whose lives are in danger and granting doctors a limited role in interrogations.www.nwherald.com/MainSection/local/286952026823011.php

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Physicians for Human Rights Condem New Rules:

The guidelines released on Tuesday, which the military said formalise existing rules and policies, drew criticism from a human rights group that said the military should not interfere with detainees who use hunger strikes as a protest and should bar experts in psychology from having any role during interrogations.www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1714897,00050001.htm

More than 20 states colluded in a “global spider’s web” of secret CIA prisons and transfers of terrorism suspects stretching from Central Asia to Guantanamo Bay, a European rights watchdog said in a report on Wednesday.tinyurl.com/h78zc

For the first time since Congress mandated its annual publication, a State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses.tinyurl.com/zlp7n

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Specter Won’t Subpoena Telecom Executives :

Phone company executives won’t be grilled by a Senate panel anytime soon about their roles in the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program.tinyurl.com/pqfgc

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Documents Shed Light on CIA’s Use of Ex-Nazis :

The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust overseer Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to CIA documents that shed new light on the spy agency’s use of former Nazis as informers after World War II.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13523.htm